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<h3>Introduction</h3>

<p>J-Painter is an image editor that allows drawing within a browser.
The resulting image can be saved on the server and existing images can be loaded for editing.
The editor is implemented as a component to be embedded in a website or web application.</p>

<h3>GUI features</h3>

<p>The editor's GUI consists of several components (drawing area, control panels)
which can be individually placed and configured on a web page according to application
tasks or desing preferencies. In particular, the developer can define the drawing tools,
colors, pens available to the user, arrange their buttons, replace standard icons
with your own, etc.</p>

<h3>Compatibility notes</h3>

<p>The editor can work in browsers supporting <code>&lt;canvas&gt;</code> element.</p>

<p>Currently (in 2014) these browsers are: IE9 or later, Firefox 3.6 or later,
Google Chrome (any version), Safari 5.0 or later, Mobile Safary (for&nbsp;iOS&nbsp;devices),
the Android browser.</p>

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<h3>Image related features</h3>

<p>The editor allows editing images with transparent background and supports translucent colors</p>

<p>The obtained image can be saved in different scales, for example to produce a thumbnail.</p>

<p>The eitor can load any image format supported by current browser,
which usually are: GIF, JPEG, PNG. The output format is PNG allways.</p>
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